From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 11:31:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA29180 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29173 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:31:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA19310 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:03:09 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost.Stanford.EDU [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA02920; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 10:44:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson Reply-To: Annelise Anderson To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: "Humprey C. Sy" , fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tun0 message In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jul 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > Routed is telling you something. That something should be "don't run me > > > unless you have to." :-) It's a normal message, but unless you have to, > > > don't run routed; disable it in /etc/sysconfig. > > > > And why not run routed? Because it is not in my interest? Or whose? > > This advice is often given and never explained. I find that not > > running routed causes long delays in booting and also in running > > some programs. > > Then you need to remove references to the ${hostname} in /etc/sysconfig > and replace them with your IP. > > And make sure your routing table setup in sysconfig is right too. The machine with the long delays without routed is my home machine, which sometimes makes slip connections with a dynamic IP assigned and sometimes makes a ppp connection with a fixed IP. It has a hostname that Stanford's name server knows about (in relation to the fixed IP address). I would therefore not want to use a fixed IP address instead of a host name. So I run routed -s on it, and it's happy. On my office machine, which is the ppp server, routed -q runs and this appears necessary--I think--to handle the proxy arp instruction (and ipfw is running also). > > Problem with routed is that if your router goes bonkers then you can kiss > your default route goodbye. I got bit by it once and stopped using it > right then and there. But the default route goes to the router! How else are the packets going to get out???? Annelise